Formed in 1997 by lead singer Ian Watkins, bassist Mike Lewis (currently guitarist), guitarist Lee Gaze and drummer Mike Chiplin (departed in 2005), they quickly gained attention via touring, signing their first deal in 1999. They released their first album, Thefakesoundofprogress, in 2000.

Despite a style that is more typically likened to bands from the U.S. (or perhaps because of it), they were much more popular in the U.K. than in the U.S., leading them to not release their 4th album in North America. However, they signed a new deal, leading to their 5th album, Weapons, having a June 2012 U.S. release.

In October 2013, the group publicly announced that they could no longer continue to make or perform music as Lostprophets in light of the serious and disturbing criminal charges brought against Watkins the prior year, which he has since pleaded guilty to. And that's all we're going to say on the subject. Subsequently, all the band members except Watkins recruited new singer Geoff Rickly, and changed the band's name to No Devotion. Their website can be found here.

Their discography:

Thefakesoundofprogress (2000)

Start Something (2004)

Liberation Transmission (2006)

The Betrayed (2010)

Weapons (2012)

This band provides examples of:

Age Progression Song: The music video of "Last Summer" plays with this. The car windshield washer is doing the exact same thing, shown in three different decades.

Album Title Drop: Betrayed on "Sunshine". Also Para Todas La Putas Celosas (their demo) on one track, "Bitchez".

Destructive Romance: One way of interpreting the lyrics to Dirty Little Heart is the guilt and shame that someone in an abusive (mentally or physically, depending on your preference for metaphors) relationship feels for loving their abuser.

These open wounds you gave meThese broken bones will take meCrawling on through the debris of myDirty little heart

Early Installment Weirdness: The first EP they put out in 1997, long before they got signed, features Ian rapping and a ska-influenced horn section, among other things.

Fading into the Next Song: Mainly on Start Something and Betrayed. Other three albums don't feature it as prominently or at all.

Follow the Leader: The band's image tended to follow what was big on American rock radio. For instance, when nu metal was big, the band looked like this◊. By the time their third album was out, emo had taken nu metal's place, and the band looked like this◊. To a lesser extent, their sound also followed this pattern, but not to the same degree. For instance, their nu metal albums didn't include rapping or follow the paint-by-numbers song structure of, say, early Linkin Park, and when their look went emo, their sound simply went from alternative metal to alternative rock.

Metal Scream: Ian attempted this on Thefakesoundofprogress, but from Start Something on, Jamie provided these much more successfully.

Miniscule Rocking: Thefakesoundofprogress had several interludes, most of which didn't even hit one minute in length. When the band re-recorded the album, the interludes got lumped in with the full songs instead of getting their own tracks.

To a lesser extent, Start Something is also this. Jamie took over screaming duties from Ian, creating the familiar Vocal Tag Team of later albums, keyboards made more frequent and integral appearances, and scratching, while still prominent, tended to be placed in specific places on songs rather than being spread out over the entire track. The album also featured more guitar solos from Lee Gaze, heavier and lower-pitched guitar tunings, and the songs were consistently either Alternative Metal or Alternative Rock, rather than the genre-hopping Nu Metal of Thefakesoundofprogress.

Non-Appearing Title: Most of the songs on Thefakesoundofprogress (well, pretty much all of it except for its Title Track). They trimmed it back in later albums, although they still did it on occasion.

One Mike Limit: Averted with guitarist Mike Lewis and original drummer Mike Chiplin.

Title Track: Variously played with. Thefakesoundofprogress has one, although it's spelled with spaces unlike the album's space-less title. Liberation Transmission lends its words to two songs, "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" and "The New Transmission", Betrayeddoesn't have one, but mentions it in a song and Weapons has a bonus track titled "Weapon". The only album that plays it completely straight is Start Something.

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